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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 August 2012 17:27, Michael Terry <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon 13 Aug 2012 12:18:03 EDT, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>
>> As safely as any other GPLd Python code.
>
>
> I meant in the sense that it is not designed for consumption by the main
> pkgme script.  That the API has stability.  Is there any documentation yet?
> (I haven't looked at the module yet, I'm just asking because it's packaged
> in Ubuntu in the pkgme package, instead of python-pkgme, which made me
> suspect it was tightly coupled with the main script.)
>

Ah, OK.

Using it directly? No, not really, unless you are using it via the
'backend' interface described on pkgme.net. i.e. running 'want' and
'all_info' to get packaging data.

However, you can use pkgme's APIs (pkgme.write_packaging, from memory)
and then pass it a list of allowed backends. You can then say that the
_only_ allowed backend is 'python'. That'll do the trick, and be quite
safe.

jml